Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems, Containing Variety of New Translations of the Ancient Poets. Together with Many Original Copies, by the Most Eminent Hands

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Jacob Tonson, 1706 - 448 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 426 - Than orient shells, that on the shores are seen : Than apples fairer, when the boughs they lade; Pleasing as winter suns, or summer shade : More grateful to the sight than goodly plains ; And...
Σελίδα 143 - Mantle hides the Trees, In hoary Flakes, which downward fly, As if it were the Autumn of the Sky...
Σελίδα 419 - Telethusa fears the day; And strives to interpose some new delay: Now feigns a sickness, now is in a fright For this bad omen, or that boding sight.
Σελίδα 14 - Orestes mourn. If your bold muse dare tread unbeaten paths, And bring new characters upon the stage, Be sure you keep them up to their first height.
Σελίδα 29 - No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in. One would wonder how drunkenness should have the good luck to be of this number. Anacharsis, being invited to a match of drinking at Corinth, demanded the prize very...
Σελίδα 245 - Are not Boileau and Corneille paid For panegyric writing? They know how heroes may be made, Without the help of fighting. When foes too...
Σελίδα 131 - Desolation will lay waste this Town: Who is there now, that can Protection give, Since He, who was her strength, no more doth live? Who, of her Rev'rend Matrons, will have care? Who, save her Children from the Rage of War? For He to all Father and Husband was, And all are Orphans now, and Widows by his loss.
Σελίδα 394 - Blood to their faint Hearts does fright. In vain alas it seeks so weak defence; For his keen Sword brings it again from thence : Yet grieves he at the Lawrels thence he bore; Alas poor Prince, they'll fight with him no more. His...
Σελίδα 31 - T!ian to keep men alive against their will ? Nor was this chance, but a deliberate choice ; For if Empedocles were now reviv'd, He would be at his frolic once again, And his...

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